On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]> wrote:
... snip ... > > But there is no end to human ingenuity. There is a > famous Tamil proverb "Vallavanukku Pullum Ayudham" meaning "Even a blade of > Grass can become a weapon in the hands of a truly capable person". The > Voyager space probes which are on the edge of the solar system, nearing > interstellar space run with processor much less capable than the processor > in the cheapest cell phone you can buy. They work with 8000 bytes of RAM. > With this, the human `spirit` in them was capable of bringing voyager 2 on > a grand tour of the planets keeping it's date with each planet and is > currently `on course` at nearly 17 billion Km from home. Well said - a beautiful perspective. Small is beautiful, Small is powerful, our imagination is the Limitation! -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
